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Published: June 14, 2026 19:34
“The genocide in Gaza hit Hollywood as a political issue, but it also played out as a labor question: in auditions canceled, projects endlessly stalled, careers ended.” …
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Published: June 14, 2026 18:00
"The secret is to allow the language to flow, to possess you." Mitchell Abidor explores three new books by and about Romanian poet Paul Celan: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/paul-celan-life-letters-gisele-conversation-mountains-poetry
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Published: June 14, 2026 17:10
“These party invitations allow intimate access to the past in a way that traditional historical accounts do not.” For our "Traffic" issue, Laura Frost on what preserved sex invitations teach us about the past:…
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Published: June 14, 2026 15:31
Stock up for summer! Visit our shop to get yourself a copy of our Quarterly, a critic hat, totes, and more: https://shop.lareviewofbooks.org/
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Published: June 14, 2026 13:29
"To see that you need to know something of their literary and cinematic genealogy, something completely absent from discussions in the mainstream media." Hamid Dabashi on the Iranian LEGO videos:…
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Published: June 13, 2026 21:00
"Putin removed the brake and replaced it with himself." Sasha Razor and other writers on the demise of oligarchs, from this year’s Oligarchy Forum: https://lareviewofbooks.org/feature/oligarchy-its-discontents-wasserstrom-jarquin-razor-santos-repnikova/
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Published: June 13, 2026 18:49
"I consulted with some surviving members of the collective, and no one recalls any such event—the existence of which would have been seared in our memories." Sarah Schulman responds to a LARB article:…
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Published: June 13, 2026 16:02
"Durbin’s remarkable book is a guide to living for creation, for friendship—living as legacy." Conor Williams reviews Andrew Durbin's "The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek":…
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Published: June 13, 2026 15:16
"Militant democracy is an American tradition." Some reflections on the state of oligarchy around the world from individuals with real, lived experiences on the ground:…
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Published: June 12, 2026 18:59
On this week's #LARBRadioHour, @barrywalters.bsky.social talks about his new book "Mighty Real," and how queerness is in the DNA of some of our most beloved songs and albums. Listen now:…
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Published: June 12, 2026 18:07
"Andy comes back to Runway not because the system has fundamentally changed but because neither she nor the audience never genuinely stopped wanting what it represented." Jake Flanagin reviews “The Devil Wears Prada 2.”…
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Published: June 12, 2026 16:59
"Reading Hockney’s life story in this form, I was struck by just how improbable much of it seems." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/portrait-of-an-artist-on-catherine-cussets-life-of-david-hockney-a-novel/
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Published: June 12, 2026 16:25
"Governments that cheered U.S. intervention must also ponder how easily such unilateral action could be directed at them." Read reflections on the state of oligarchy around the world:…
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Published: June 12, 2026 15:03
"It's about countless little decisions both kind and cruel, the moment-to-moment personalities, that design history." @zosha.bsky.social on "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms":…
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Published: June 12, 2026 13:31
"While I am sure these letters were written since they appear in archives, I question whether they were actually sent." Sarah Schulman responds to Marina Magloire's "Moving Towards Life":…
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Published: June 11, 2026 20:22
"First will come a stylistic arms race: humans and machines trying to out-human one another." For our new Traffic issue, Krzysztof Pelc on the threat of LLMs and the mistrust of human authenticity:…
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Published: June 11, 2026 19:31
Come sit in Traffic with us. LARB Quarterly, no. 49: Traffic has arrived. Exploring the infrastructures that allow or impede our movement, the new issue features fiction, essays, and poetry. Get your copy today: https://lareviewofbooks.org/quarterly/
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Published: June 11, 2026 18:02
"To defend football in its current form, given its scale and cultural pervasiveness, is to defend the broader social order in which it is embedded." Seth Rogoff reviews Chuck Klosterman’s “Football”:…
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Published: June 11, 2026 16:29
"'The Devil Wears Prada 2' betrays an undercurrent of a wistfulness for a time when the fashion industry’s brutal hierarchy was not just tolerated, but vaunted." Jake Flanagin reviews “The Devil Wears Prada 2”:…
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Published: June 11, 2026 13:31
"The stakes of 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' are small until they’re the biggest stakes in the world—what’s immediately in front of you." Zosha Millman on what the show's soundtrack tells us about heroism:…
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Published: June 10, 2026 22:02
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Published: June 10, 2026 20:34
"Lacking a neat arc, 'The Snakes That Ate Florida' is more about the formation of an essayist." Edna Bonhomme on the work of Ian Frazier and “The Snakes that Ate Florida”:…
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Published: June 10, 2026 19:31
"The secret is to allow the language to flow, to possess you." Mitchell Abidor explores three new books by and about Romanian poet Paul Celan: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/paul-celan-life-letters-gisele-conversation-mountains-poetry
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Published: June 10, 2026 17:34
Deb Olin Unferth on her new book: "I wanted to imagine a different way to preserve life. I’m tired of these massive technological band-aids that we’ve come up with to try to keep this whole thing going."…
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Published: June 10, 2026 13:31
"Like distressed jeans, the imperfections will be the point, on the implicit theory that humanness now resides in mess rather than mastery." For our new issue, Krzysztof Pelc on the threat of LLMs:…
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Published: June 9, 2026 19:10
"The audacity of aiming high and being truly ambitious with your work is when it hits, it feels incredible. The downside is you may have to wait for it." —Maggie Smith on "A Suit or A Suitcase":…
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Published: June 9, 2026 17:41
"Durbin’s remarkable book is a guide to living for creation, for friendship—living as legacy." Conor Williams reviews Andrew Durbin's "The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek":…
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Published: June 9, 2026 15:29
"He invites you to stagger into the infinite curiosities of this world, and to pay attention to the animals who might creep up on you at the grocery store." Edna Bonhomme reviews Ian Frazier's new collection:…
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Published: June 9, 2026 13:31
"I want to push against humanity holding the center, our time and our history being the most significant." Kyle Francis Williams interviews Deb Olin Unferth about her new novel “Earth 7”:…
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Published: June 8, 2026 21:48
"The problem football faces is that the media no longer allows for the type of grand narratives football needs to survive." Seth Rogoff on football and Chuck Klosterman's "Football":…
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Published: June 8, 2026 19:29
"The consequences of that failure are continuing racism and racial violence." An open letter to Chancellor Julio Frenk from the UCLA Task Force on anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, & anti-Muslim Racism:…
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Published: June 8, 2026 17:46
"The secret is to allow the language to flow, to possess you." Mitchell Abidor on three new books by and about Romanian poet Paul Celan: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/paul-celan-life-letters-gisele-conversation-mountains-poetry
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Published: June 8, 2026 15:31
"They were still determining what it meant to be gay, what it meant to be a community." Conor Williams on the reconstruction of Andrew Durbin's "The Wonderful World That Almost Was":…
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Published: June 8, 2026 13:31
"I realized I had written several poems using, in both title and conceit, an art mode—something like a study or an installation." Yvonne Conza interviews Maggie Smith about "A Suit or A Suitcase":…
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Published: June 7, 2026 19:50
"The possibility most women live somewhere in between—negotiating trade-offs and imperfect arrangements—barely registers in the novelistic frame, perhaps deliberately so." Anna Ballan on "Yesteryear":…
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Published: June 7, 2026 18:18
"Why call this cozy mode of spec fic anything to do with 'weird' at all?" Megan Milks and Amber Dawn respond to a recent LARB article on the "New Weird": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/letter-editor-new-qweird-megan-milks-amber-dawn/
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Published: June 7, 2026 17:01
"Sometimes you must stand athwart history, yelling 'Are you fucking serious?'" Emmett Rensin on Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s “Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young”: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dangerous-dirty-violent-young-ayers-dohrn-weather-underground/
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Published: June 7, 2026 16:01
LITLIT is still going! Come down to @sciarc.bsky.social in the Arts District today to check out some of the best in West Coast Literary Arts! Don't miss it: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/litlit-the-little-literary-fair-tickets-1987962265651
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Published: June 7, 2026 13:30
“For some of his more perspicacious readers, the profundity of Celan’s Jewishness was precisely what made his poetry as stark and difficult as it was.” Mitchell Abidor on the work of poet Paul Celan:…
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Published: June 6, 2026 19:31
"More than simple acknowledgment, we are asking for your positive affirmation of the rights of Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian students, faculty, and staff." An open Letter to UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk:…
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Published: June 6, 2026 19:23
"Football’s cultural dominance is over. We don’t need to wait for it to disappear. Football is already gone." Seth Rogoff explores Chuck Klosterman’s “Football”:…
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Published: June 6, 2026 16:59
Laura Frost looks through archived sex party invitations, and explores how they "offer evidence of how the marginalized played, fought, mourned, and survived" for our upcoming Traffic issue. …
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Published: June 6, 2026 16:02
IT'S LITLIT!! Come down to @sciarc.bsky.social in the Arts District TODAY and tomorrow, and help us celebrate West Coast Literary Arts! Grab your free ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/litlit-the-little-literary-fair-tickets-1987962265651
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Published: June 6, 2026 15:31
"What dissatisfactions animate the trad fantasies in the first place, and what are women reaching for when they reach for them?" Anna Ballan reviews "Yesteryear":…
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Published: June 6, 2026 13:31
“We’re interested in aesthetic weirdness that exceeds the bounds of what typically gets described as ‘weird.’” The editors of the anthology "New Queer Weird" respond to a recent LARB essay:…